And one that every Angel fan should take to heart. Since 02 being an Angel fan has been a joy, for the most part. But my younger years and childhood were marked with more Halo associated heartbreak, than joy.

You LUCKY guy.

and Euclid too, while I’m at it.

As Jim Healy used to say, good teams win close games. We win lots of close games, most of them low-scoring. Those we lose tend not to be close. This may not be typical, but it’s not luck. It’s talent.

Still, the guy knew where to go to for an accurate Angel fan’s perspective, so there is a bit of the Panther in him.

But what that means is that we have a special intangibility that can’t be described. More often than not that translates into something special during the playoffs. The thing is, we don’t need luck, we just need a little bit of luck.

Especially for the WSJ? I’m the king of amateur-ish writing and I felt like I was reading The Onion.

Its defininately cool that he quoted the Rev. And its awesome to get that kind of exposure.

The media’s hesitance to give credit may be maddening, I’m fine with it. Hopefully we’ll be hearing how “lucky” they are as they mow through October.

You’ve made the big time.

But it’s best to be both.

If a team is this far outside normal bounds, it’s time to wonder if you’re using the wrong measurement system.

That is the worst article I have ever read. It makes Dayn Perry look like a Pulitzer prize winning author.

We are the only team in the AL with a winning road record. And we 19 games over .500 on the road. I don’t see how you can possibly call that luck. The Angels are the only team not dependent upon their home park for their record.

All that matters are the W’s and L’s. I do think that the run differential thing means something, but I don’t think it should define our season. I think we have as good of a shot as anybody to win the Series. The thing that this ignores is that we have a great bullpen and a great manager who knows how to use that bullpen. The reason the D-backs couldn’t duplicate their success this year is that the bullpen couldn’t hold onto a lot of those close leads and their hitting just wasn’t quite good enough to make up those one-run deficits.

The thing that mostly bothers me about the Pythagorean W-L/Lucky one-run wins theory is that people who tout that theory can never be wrong. If the Angels win the Series, it’s a small sample size. If the Angels lose the Series, well obviously their run differential shows us that they weren’t all that good to begin with. Anything can happen in baseball. That’s what makes it (and other sports) so great to watch.

The Angels can beat the Sawx or the Cubs any day of the week, run differentials be damned.

Seriously, I didn’t know the WSJ covered sports.

and then two quotes kinda struck me.
the first is “You make your own luck” meaning that if you put yourself in a good position to win, chances are, you are going to.
The other quote is my sig

This is not original to me, and I am not sure where I first heard it. But it sure has been accurate in my experience!